Letters

01 September 2005
Comments Letters It is widely known that information on Honeybuzzards Pernis apivorus in Britain was withheld from both the 1968­72 and the 1988­91 national breeding atlases and, until recently, also from the Rare Breeding Birds Panel (RBBP). Consequently, there ...
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Letters

01 May 2002
Comments Letters The trouble with debates about the identity of potential `firsts' (e.g. Brit. Birds 95: 12-16) is that they may delay the recognition of new species deserving special attention. In July 1989, for example, two dark-rumped storm-petrels caught at Tynemou...
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